haggis supper

As our laptop broke in the move (thanks Allied Pickfords) the insurance company is offering us in the region of $1700 to replace it. As my wife will need to use it for occasional work reasons (marketing) we know that we will need Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook etc and as we have a wireless router we will need inbuilt wireless capability. We'll also need a DVD player and burner and may want to play the TV through the screen but is there anything else we should be looking at ?

My wife is likely to use it most days just to receive/play Radio 2 (don't ask !), to access the internet and emails and twice a week be able to use a webcam to the Grandparents back in blighty.

Would greatly appreciate any help/advice on models, software or other stuff we should ensure we have - neither of us are particularly pc literate.

Cheers !

Hutch

Harvey Norman have a Toshiba Satellite M50-S001 Notebook for $1799 that ticks all your boxes and should prove to be sufficiently future-proof to last you a few years. They're also doing a Toshiba Satellite M70/F00 Notebook - not quite as powerful, but still a nice machine and retails for $1499. You should always haggle though - you'll get between 5 and 10% off if you as the right questions. Had a quick look at The Good Guys and Bing Lee, but there's not much of interest at either. Actually - just checked out Dell - and I think one of these is probably your best bet.

gedge

I'd second the Toshy. Great laptops that are built to last. I'd buy one myself if I could warrant replacing my existing laptop.

haggis supper

Cheers guys, much appreciated

Billabong

I'm an IT Manager and I buy Toshiba laptops for all of my execs and would not hesitate in recommending them.

goldcoastblue

ASUS doing good deals, and they offer 2 year international warranty

avroncotton

Once you go MAC; you never go back!

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